Twitter will be updating its Android app this week and one significant change is that the social media platform will now support up to five lists as option timelines in the main home section of the app.
Users will be able to use these lists to quickly navigate between different groups of accounts that they have arranged into a Twitter list. It is a more convenient way to access lists that were previously buried inside the menu system.
Lists support was added to Twitter for iOS six months ago and it’s a bit surprising it has taken quite some time to arrive on Android.
The Twitter lists help users to avoid accounts they do not want to follow on the service or just a way to curate a list of popular accounts for particular topics. TweetDeck, the column-based interface for Twitter, has prioritized lists for years, and now both the mobile Twitter apps will display these lists as vertical timelines that are easy to access.
Twitter’s latest Android updates follow the addition of threaded replies on iOS, which improves how standard tweets and replies are differentiated in the app. The updated app now draws a clear line between a parent tweet and the replies.
The Twitter lists support for Android will roll out today and can be accessed at the Google Play Store.
